2012 Truck Farm Garden Contest open!
The Truck Farm Garden Contest last year was so much fun we’ve brought it back!
The contest is simple: plant a seed in the most creative place you can think of, watch it grow, snap a photo, and submit it right here on our website.
JUNE 1st is the deadline for submissions. Judges Alice Waters, Marion Nestle, and Michael Pollan will select the winners in June. We can’t wait to see what you grow!
TRUCK FARM in Hawai’i
TRUCK FARM rang in the new year with a January 6th screening at Sunset Beach Elementary on Oahu’s North Shore. The screening was presented by the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, local literacy mascot Rex the Surf Dog, and ‘AINA Kine Student Farmer’s Market, as part of a terrific event that included a visit by the Windward Nazarene Academy Truck Farm, kid-friendly gardening activities, tours of the Sunset Beach school garden, and a special performance by Truck Farm songwriter Simon Beins with local musician Jack Johnson. It was a blast! Heartfelt thanks to our hosts for organizing the event.
Ian Cheney with event co-organizer Rex Dubiel, a teacher at Sunset Beach Elementary, and creator of Rex the Surf Dog, a youth literacy mascot
Planting gardens to take home
A Hawaiian truck farm!
Ian Cheney and Simon Beins chat with the young truck farmers from Windward Nazarene Academy about what they're growing.
Event co-host Jack Johnson and Simon Beins get a dance party going at Sunset Beach Elementary.
Jack Johnson and Simon Beins
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Harvest party at home/made
Last Sunday, the TRUCK FARM team, with our talented and dear friends Monica Byrne and Leisah Swenson of home/made in Brooklyn, hosted an end-of-summer harvest party to thank our local sponsors and supporters. Monica and Leisah provided delicious food and the perfect place for a festive gathering and outdoor screening. Before the film, Simon Beins performed a few songs that didn’t make it into TRUCK FARM, and a few that did.
Enormous thanks to our talented and generous hosts, Monica and Leisah, to the awesome staff at home/made, and to all of our TRUCK FARM supporters in NYC and beyond.
The truck farm parked at home/made in Red Hook for our end-of-summer harvest party
Ian with Monica Byrne and Leisah Swenson of home/made
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Upcoming screenings
There are opportunities far and wide to see TRUCK FARM in the days ahead:
- Thursday, October 6, at the Pickford Center in Bellingham, WA (also showing THE CITY DARK)
- Thursday, October 13, at the Environmental Film Festival Melbourne, AUS (also showing THE CITY DARK)
- Saturday, October 15, at the Feast on This Film Festival in Keene, NH
- Sunday, October 16, at the Food Film Festival, NYC
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Surprise visitors in Port Townsend, WA
Thanks to our warm TRUCK FARM (and THE CITY DARK) audiences and hosts at the recent Port Townsend Film Festival! A true highlight of the festival weekend was a visit from Truck Farm Seattle. Kathy and Todd drove two hours to Port Townsend in their 1972 Ford truck farm, and, thanks to an ingenious piece of plywood that doubles as a mural, the veggies survived!
Check the TRUCK FARM Facebook page for more photos from this terrific visit. Kathy and Todd, so glad you came!
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A visit to Moscow… Idaho!
Last week, the Moscow Food Co-op in northern Idaho hosted a screening of TRUCK FARM and a Q&A with Ian at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, as part of the Good Food Film Series.
Before the sun went down, the Wicked Delicate team visited the beautiful Moscow Community Garden for the Co-op’s Harvest Celebration Picnic, featuring plenty of burgers, brats, and amazing kale salad from the Co-op; friendly local farmers and growers and good-food fans; and live music from singer/songwriter Charlie Sutton.
Huge thanks to host Carol Spurling and the Moscow community for welcoming TRUCK FARM!
Ian with Carol Spurling, Co-op outreach and ownership coordinator
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Upcoming screenings
A few chances to see TRUCK FARM are coming up in the next week. Check our Screenings Calendar for details and updates!
- Thursday, September 15, at Back Row Film Series, presented by the Arts and Education Council of Chattanooga (TN)
- Monday, September 19, at the Danny Kaye Theatre of the Culinary Institute of America (NY)
- Wednesday, September 21, at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, presented by Community Food Works and co-sponsored by Backyard Harvest and the Moscow Food Co-op (ID)
- Saturday, September 24, with appearance by Ian, at the Port Townsend Film Festival (WA)
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The original truck farmer?
Here in Brooklyn, we planted the truck farm in 2009. We were delighted to learn recently that Mississippian Felder Rushing has been at it since 1988!
According to his website, Felder began planting a small garden of flowers, herbs, and vegetables in the back of various pickup trucks in 1988, when he started with just a sack of potting soil.
He worked up to a larger bale of potting soil, and currently has a custom-made, rust-proof box, with a rubber mat to prevent rust in the truck bed, in the back of his dad’s 1988 Ford F-150.
Felder drives thousands of miles a year, usually with Rusty the dog, from Mississippi to San Antonio, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, and down to Key West. We love it!
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Community screenings update
TRUCK FARM is making the rounds! The film has been showing at all kinds of venues (tonight, catch it at the Schlafly Bottleworks in Missouri), paired with terrific outreach efforts by local organizations and even some appearances by members of our Truck Farm fleet. Go, truck farmers!
The film screened earlier this month in Washington, DC, as part of an event called Urban Agriculture on the Move, sponsored by the Neighborhood Farm Initiative, a DC-based non-profit serving as an educational resource for adults and teenagers working to engage in small-scale food production.
Folks from the DC Central Kitchen were on hand to give a peek at DC’s own truck farm, and to discuss different ways urban agriculture brings fresh food to city-dwellers. Representatives from the Neighborhood Farm Initiative discussed ways they’ve reclaimed underutilized green spaces.
If this sparks some ideas about your own community screening, get in touch! And if you’ve been to a TRUCK FARM screening in your community, we’d love to see (and share) your photos! Send them along to [email protected]
(More photos from the DC event here. Photo credit: Laura Buitrago)
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